Why I Told Biden to Quit, by New Yorker’s David Remnick: ‘Breakthrough Moment’
When The New Yorker’s editor David Remnick watched Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump, it was the culmination of long-held doubts. On Saturday, he published a column headlined “The Reckoning of Joe Biden,” calling for the president to end a re-election campaign that Remnick called “a national endangerment.”
Remnick told the Daily Beast, “It’s just become more and more evident, and the debate was just the kind of breakthrough moment.”
The column is the latest salvo from a media elite demanding Biden step aside. Those making the call have included Biden’s long-term friend Thomas Friedman, who wrote in the New York Times that he wept as he watched the debate. Remnick told the Beast that, unlike others, he does not have a personal relationship with the 46th president. “I don’t know Joe Biden,” Remnick said. “That’s not my role.”